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Blog

Renewing calls to defund the police and resource communities

Meenakshi Mannoe & Kit Rothschild want City of Vancouver to reinvest 50% of the police budget into community-led crisis response and peer-led systems of care.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 30, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Defunding the VPD is an investment in public safety and collective well-being

Researcher and policy analyst Chuka Ejeckam distinguishes public safety from police spending, as these concepts are often conflated.
By Chuka Ejeckam Chuka Ejeckam | Nov 29, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Data Visualizations

Power, control & erosion of rights: the politics of BC’s complex care “housing”

Nicole Luongo outlines the pitfalls of the “Complex Care housing” model that is widely-touted by provincial and municipal governments in BC
By Nicole Luongo Nicole Luongo | Nov 03, 2021 | Blog, Homes For All

Report back: advocating for a made-in-BC model of decriminalization

Read an update on Pivot’s decriminalization advocacy and our conditions for supporting and providing input on a made-in-BC model.
By Caitlin Shane Caitlin Shane | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Joint Statement on Homelessness Action Week 2021

The Coalition of Peers Dismantling the War on Drugs, VANDU and Pivot recognize “Homelessness Action Week 2021”
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 12, 2021 | Blog, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

The Trespass Prevention Program Criminalizes Poverty

The Vancouver Police Department is doubling down on the Trespass Prevention Program by expanding it, despite concerns.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Oct 06, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Pivot to Represent BC-Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors in BC Supreme Court Judicial Review

We are going to the Supreme Court of BC to fight for Drug War Survivors right to have a space of their own in Surrey.
By Caitlin Shane Caitlin Shane | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Grief, Rage & Resistance

Black and Indigenous women in the Downtown Eastside in conversation about the Impacts of the drug poisoning crisis.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Aug 19, 2021 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Pivot's Letter of Opposition regarding Motion B2 “Supporting Community-Led Public Safety in Mount Pleasant”

"Motion B2 assumes that policing is best-suited to respond to a myriad of social and economic issues, rather than grappling with what interventions could be made available through defunding police and investing in community-led crisis intervention."
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Jul 21, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Letters & Statements

Pivot Legal Society Annual Report 2020

Our 2020 Annual Report is out. You can read about our campaigns and public legal education efforts during an exceptionally difficult year of multiple public health crises.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog, Annual Reports
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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